Leave of Absence Bullet Points

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May 15, 2024

  • its surprisingly easy to just completely change the trajectory of your life in a single weekend if you really want to. there is nothing stopping you besides people's perception and your calculated opportunity cost
  • your body and mind will adapt to whatever new lifestyle, no matter how different it is. hedonic adaptation
  • i dont like working on anything without a strong sense of purpose or opportunity
  • i enjoy coding
    • not enough to justify blindly doing it everyday to benefit someone else
  • there are plenty of people academically smarter than me
  • "ceo skill" is almost entirely
    • knowing money in money out
    • talking to people
    • selling to people
    • telling stories
    • being someone that people like
  • business skill is not startup skill
    • both are good for startups
      • i can compete with a lot of "idea people"
  • i am very lucky to have spent so much time at home this semester
  • exercise keeps me mentally sharp
  • not a lot of people raise money, but very few raise a priced round
  • b2b anything takes insanely long
  • being completely alone and working will be fun one day, but it wasn't this semester
  • i am not good at working for disproportionate recognition
  • id rather to put my full effort into something or not at all
  • average software systems are not incredibly complex
    • elite products are -- but not at the start
  • speculating about the future of tech and its place in the world is fun
    • especially fun when i feel like i have an underlying understanding of how it works and what is currently possible
  • san francisco is the center of everything in tech and it is not close
  • no one actually cares